old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login

cchucksmash about 3 hours ago 21 comments

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You maniacs! You blew it up!

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Discussion (21 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

a_e_k•about 1 hour ago

Earlier today I started getting a "Get the app to keep using Reddit" popup when browsing while logged out on my phone. (I prefer to use Firefox Android exclusively in private mode to reduce the temptation to doom scroll and to have the added friction of manually logging in when commenting on any site.)

Unlike the prior nag screens, this one was modal, blocked any scrolling, and had no way to close it. It seemed to pop up about 15 seconds after I first start scrolling any page - either a list of threads on a subreddit, or a thread page itself.

Man I miss the old iOS-looking Reddit mobile (m.reddit.com, IIRC).

My Reddit account is now just a few months short of US drinking age. I've been using the site since before subreddits were a thing (back when the only topic-specific alternative to the general front page was programming.reddit.com). I've posted a lot, modded some, and stuck with them through a lot of stupid decisions over the years. But I'm beginning to think it's finally time to move on; I'm just not sure where to.

sixhobbits•16 minutes ago

I started getting this occasionally months ago. I added these ublock rules and haven't been bothered since but I suspect they will change to a hard wall in future

! 28 Apr 2026 https://www.reddit.com www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct > .bg-transparent www.reddit.com###app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-direct

www.reddit.com###xpromo-bottom-sheet reddit.com#?##app-upsell-blocking-bottom-sheet-seo:remove() reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('prevent-addEventListener', 'touchmove', 'preventDefault') reddit.com#%#//scriptlet('remove-class', 'rpl-scroll-lock|scroll-is-blocked', 'html, body', 'asap stay') reddit.com#$#html, body, shreddit-app { overflow-y: scroll !important; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch !important; touch-action: pan-y !important; overscroll-behavior: auto !important; } www.reddit.com##.rpl-bottom-sheet www.reddit.com##body:remove-class(rpl-scroll-lock)

ColdStream•44 minutes ago

Alas, you are already on the alternative. Hacker news feels like one of the last hold outs of the old internet.

viccis•34 minutes ago

Literally why I started to come here. r/programming because a derelict wasteland. What commentary you got was frivolous and unhelpful. Posts about CockroachDB there would all be jokes or other commentary on its name, while you'd have the engineers who created it in here. I started to notice a lot of posts with mediocre discussion had a related post in the r/hackernews. While I had come here now and then, I started to see that I could actually still learn stuff here and decided to skip the middle man.

kooi•26 minutes ago

skill issue /s

mandarinclips•about 1 hour ago

It's difficult for me to post on Reddit now; it's very restrictive, mainly because my karma score is too low. There will be even more restrictions going forward; AI automation is becoming too powerful.

unsupp0rted•10 minutes ago

It doesn't matter if you did post on Reddit: the userbase is so hostile that you'd be instantly downvoted unless it's one of the sub's existing 10 talking-points.

shawn_w•about 1 hour ago

Are there any decent alternatives to reddit? When they finish killing off old reddit I'm gone, and will need a new time waster.

expedited123•42 minutes ago

Lemmy (part of of fediverse), HN, Tildes, Lobste.rs.

ColdStream•about 2 hours ago

Australia here. I have been playing around with this on various machines.

It seems to be using some cookie system that is bypassing this for the moment. Older machines I have still can use it without issue. But a fresh browser on the same connection will be prompted for the login.

Regardless, it is clear what direction this is going in. Age verification is also being tested in some places.

dlcarrier•36 minutes ago

It's still working for me, even in an incognito window.

mexicojalisco•about 2 hours ago

It’s been requiring login to old Reddit from Mexico for 1-2 months. In out

dostoynikov•about 2 hours ago

It does not require me to login. I am from Japan tho. Maybe this requirement is kind of European freedom stuff lol.

throwaway81523•about 2 hours ago

It still works for me. Maybe they are still rolling out the change.

shmde•about 2 hours ago

Yes. Works for me to. For now. They will pull the same shit they pulled with i.reddit.com

throwaway81523•about 2 hours ago

What did they do with i.reddit.com? That still works for me too as far as I know. But as long as I remember, it's needed some awful looking session identifier.

viccis•27 minutes ago

I've seen many people point out that, despite AI being heralded as increasing engineering productivity by 10x or more, we don't seem to have gotten a decade worth of new disruptive sites and apps like we got multiple times a year in the early 2010s. Not that surprising to me, as product fit was always the bottleneck, rarely engineering.

But I can say that where AI and its externalities truly excel and have rapidly accelerated is in taking away or at least hobbling the value of many sites. This is another victim, I think. Reddit needs to figure out how to make money, and their main valuable asset now is a trove of somewhat organized (compared to, say, Discord) text conversations. They have so far been too incompetent to turn being one of the only way to get good results from google searches into revenue, so they're scuttling that with this and the normal site paywall in hopes of LLM corpus cash.

add-sub-mul-div•about 2 hours ago

And nothing of value was walled in.

ColdStream•about 1 hour ago

I mean there is still some decent stuff but it is so rare nowadays. The value has been dropping for years.

shmde•about 2 hours ago

The www.reddit.com shows me a banner after 10 seconds to login/signup. So annoying. I refresh multiple times to make that banner go away. It sometimes does sometimes doesn't. Such user hostile stuff.

mlry•about 1 hour ago

3 or 4 zaps with uBlock Origin and you are good to go. The last layer is a fullscreen overlay that also needs to go.

Let's see how long it will last. Started yesterday during the evening.